Bottle-label.



PATENTED FEB. 25, 1908.

J. P. AHRENS.

BOTTLE LABEL.

APPLIoATIoN FILED MAY a. 1907.

JOHN FREDERICK AHRENS, OF` NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-LABEL.

Speecaton of Letters Patent. Appumion nea may 3.1907. snm no. visso.

Paientedreb. 25, 1908.

i To all whmn it 'may concern:

Be it known that I,- JoHN. FREDERICK AHRENs, a citizenof the United States, re-- siding in the borough of Brooklyn, city and State of New York, have invented certain` Improvements in Bottle-Labels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprises a novel form of label to be used upon bottles contaming bevera es, more particularly spirits and liquors successive quantities are poured therefroml whatever such'levels may be.

The manner in which the label is constructed is hereinafter set forth in detail.Y

Inthe drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of a bottle with the improved label applied thereto; Fig. 2, a partial elevation of a'modiiication Fig. 3, apartial elevation showing a modification; Fig. 4, a vertical transverse section through the wall of the bottle to which the label is applied.

The label a which may, and .preferably should, extend from the curved upper part of the bottle to substantially the bottom thereof and which will contain appropriate printed matter, is in the preferred form provided at the back with a tape or plurality of tapes, extending from the top to the bottom of the label by means of which a section of the label may be gradually to any desired extent torn out from the top downwardly as the level of the contents of the bottle becomes lower. Thus in Fig. 2, the 'main label is preferably provided with parallel rows of perforations b extending from top to bottom; and, at the back of the label opposite the portion thereof between the perforations, is a tape c the lower end of which may be turned over the bottom edge of the label and pasted thereto. Its upper end is provided with a tab d which may appropriately contain the Words Pull to level of whisky.

A similar tape having a tab e may be applied to v the small neck label f in the same manner.

This neck label may appropriately contain some such inscription as the following: Customer should refuse liquor if its level is above the oint to which the label is torn.

When a drink is poured from the bottle, the I customer or bartender should, by means of the tab, tear down the tape breaking away perlence to the section 'of the label between the arallel rows of perforations to the then leve of the liqlFior in the bottle. L

' ig. 3 shows a similar arrangement except that the parallel rows of perforations do not extend in continuous line from -top to bottorn of the label, but are formed in staggered sections b b', b of which there may be any desired number' and each of which is provided with a tape having a suitable tab at its upper end, its lower end d2 bein perferably brou ht through a slit in the labe and pasted to t e face of the latter. These tabs may all contain the words Pull-to level of whisky. In the arrangement shown in Fig. 3, the upper tape of the series of tapes on the main label. extends also along the back of the oval neck labelf.

Fig. 1 shows an arran ement similar to Fig. 3 except that the mu tiple tapes are arranged in l1ne with each other instead vof be l ing staggered or offset.

Fig. 4 merely shows the way the ends of the tapes are brought to the front o f' the label and secured as above suggested.

In applying the label to a bottle, it is preferred t at no paste should be a plied to the tape or'tapes which, if pasted, might adheretoo tenaclously to the glass. The tapes may be of any suitable. material, paper of proper strength having been shown by exe entirely satisfactory. They may, of course, be of some approprlate inexpensive textile fabric.

With a bottle sufficiently transparent to observe the level of its contents a label of this-character, if properly manipulated, affords the customer protection against being served from relled bottles. I

It will be observed that the tapes cin Figs. 1, 3 and'4, except those at the-top of the label or labels extend through horizontal slits in the label, that is to say, in Fig. 1, for instance, the three lower tapes which are arranged at the rear ofthe label between the lines of perforations extend through slits at the uplper ends of the perforations and are broug t to the front, havin loose portions or tabs d b means of whic the tapes can be taken ho d of to tear the labels. This is clearly indicated in Fig. 4. In Fig. 3 the arrangement is similar except that t e tapes are arranged in dierent vertical planes. The lower end dZ of each tape may be secured to the label between lines of perforations by so f ends of the slit and a ta e arranged in rear of the label between the ines of perforations and extending out at its upper end through the slit to the front of .the-label. 1

2. A bottle abel-formed with a Series of y short transverse slits in different horizontal planes and vertical lines of perforations extending downwardly from opposite ends of the slits and a series of ta es arranged in rear of the label between the' ines of perforations and extending at their u per ends through the slits to the front of t e label.

7,3. A bottle-label formed'with a series of short transverse slits arranged in different horizontal andvertical planes, vertical lines of perforations extendin downwardly from the upper ends of the sits and a series of tapes arranved in rear of the label between the lines o perforations and extending at their upper ends through thepslits-to the front of the a el. Y

4. Abottle label formed with two lines of vertically arranged from thetop of the abel downwards and a tape arranged in rear of the label between the perforations having its lower end turned out. ward and secured to the front face of the label and having a forwardly projecting upper end for the urpose specified. 5. A bottle labelformed with a series of short` transverse slits Iarranged in different horizontal planes and vertical-lines of perforations extending downwardly from the upper ends of the' slits and` tabs' rojectin forwardly from the upper ends o the labe sections bounded by said slits and perforations.

In testirnony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name. y JOHN FREDERICK AHRENS.

Witnesses: l

A. W. W. MILLER, r M. L.' Armn'n'shf lperforations kextending 

